Barbara Brown Taylor Quotes
The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
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...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.
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There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.
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Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.
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Are you the stuff that hero's are made of? Or are you a jellyfish in a skirt?
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
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My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.
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The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn't felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
